Fred Wilson has an excellent post here that sums up how I’m sure many of us feel with respect to what’s happening down south while we enjoy the weekend.
I’d like to add one other comment to his great post.
The ultimate donation every American can make is at the ballot box. We need a gov’t filled with people that care and put caring about people above everything else. This isn’t a political party issue, rather an issue at the individual level.
When you go to the ballot box and before you make that pick, just ask yourself this:
“If I was in trouble from a 9/11 or Katrina situation, would this person care? Would they go bananas with making sure I and my fellow Americans were taken care of?”
Put aside all others issues because this one really matters. It realy can “happen here” and likely will happen again.
We need a gov’t that cares. It really is that simple.
As for me, I'd much rather have a government that minded its own damn business. We got "government that cares" aplenty in the Clinton years. Our present "caring" government is spending its money on keeping private charitable organizations from getting into the disaster areas to help people. This is not atypical behavior...it's the kind of thing that's routine whenever government tries to "help".
Government is good at two things...building roads and fighting wars. Anything else it tries, it inevitably screws up. And I'd much rather trust the levers of power in the hands of folks who know their own limitations and the limitations of the tools they're in charge of, than the kind of grand-design megalomaniacs who "care".
Posted by: Matt | September 08, 2005 at 01:39